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Historical Events on October 29

539 BC
Cyrus the Great (founder of Persian Empire) entered the capital of Babylon and allowed the Jews to return to their land.
312
Constantine the Great enters Rome after his victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, stages a grand adventus in the city, and is met with popular jubilation. Maxentius' body is fished out of the Tiber and beheaded.
437
Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor, marries Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his cousin Theodosius II, Eastern Roman Emperor in Constantinople unifying the two branches of the House of Theodosius.
969
Byzantine troops occupy Antioch, Syria.
1268
Conradin is executed along with his companion Frederick I, Margrave of Baden by Charles I of Sicily.
1390
First trial for witchcraft in Paris leading to the death of three people.
1467
Battle of Brustem:Charles the Bold defeats Prince-Bishopric of Liège.
1591
Pope Innocent IX is elected.
1611
Russian homage to the King of Poland, Sigismund III Vasa.
1618
English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
1658
Second Northern War: Naval forces of the Dutch Republic defeat the Swedes in the Battle of the Sound.
1665
Portuguese forces defeat the Kingdom of Kongo and decapitate King António I of Kongo, also known as Nvita a Nkanga.
1675
Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
1787
Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.
1792
Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who sighted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
1863
Eighteen countries meet in Geneva and agree to form the International Red Cross.
1863
American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant repel a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet. Union forces thus open a supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1888
The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.
1901
In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
1901
Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
1914
Ottoman entry into World War I.
1918
The German High Seas Fleet is incapacitated when sailors mutiny on the night of the 29th-30th, an action which would trigger the German Revolution of 1918-19.
1921
The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.
1921
United States: Second trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in Boston, Massachusetts.
1921
The Harvard University football team loses to Centre College, ending a 25-game winning streak. This is considered one of the biggest upsets in college football.
1922
King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy appoints Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister.
1923
Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
1929
The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or "Black Tuesday", ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.
1941
The Holocaust: In the Kaunas Ghetto over 10,000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the "Great Action".
1942
The Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews.
1944
The Dutch city of Breda is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division.
1944
World War II: The Soviet Red Army enters Hungary.
1948
Safsaf massacre: Israeli soldiers capture the Palestinian village of Safsaf in the Galilee; after, between 52 and 64 villagers are massacred by the IDF.
1953
BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco.
1955
The Soviet battleship Novorossiysk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.
1956
Suez Crisis begins: Israeli forces invade the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.
1957
Israel's prime minister David Ben-Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when Moshe Dwek throws a grenade into Israel's Knesset.
1960
In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
1960
An airplane carrying the Cal Poly football team crashes on takeoff in Toledo, Ohio.
1961
Syria exits from the United Arab Republic.
1964
The United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar is renamed the United Republic of Tanzania.
1964
A collection of irreplaceable gems, including the 565 carat (113 g) Star of India, is stolen by a group of thieves (among them is "Murph the surf") from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
1967
Montreal's World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million visitors.
1969
The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
1971
In Macon, Georgia, guitarist Duane Allman is killed in a motorcycle accident.
1972
The three surviving perpetrators of the Munich massacre are released from prison in exchange for the hostages of hijacked Lufthansa Flight 615.
1980
Demonstration flight of a secretly modified C-130 for an Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt ends in crash landing at Eglin Air Force Base's Duke Field, Florida leading to cancellation of Operation Credible Sport.
1985
Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multi-party election in Liberia.
1986
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.
1991
The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
1994
Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House; he is later convicted of trying to kill US President Bill Clinton.
1998
In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.
1998
Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year-old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space.
1998
ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with the launch of the STS-95 space shuttle mission.
1998
While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of six and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he is landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.
1998
Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, makes landfall in Honduras.
1998
The Gothenburg discothèque fire in Sweden kills 63 and injures 200.
1999
A large cyclone devastates Odisha, India.
2002
Ho Chi Minh City ITC fire, a fire destroys a luxurious department store where 1500 people are shopping. Over 60 people die and over 100 are unaccounted for. It is the deadliest disaster in Vietnam during peacetime.
2004
The Arabic-language news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a 2004 Osama bin Laden video in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
2005
Bombings in Delhi, India kill more than 60.
2008
Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the world's largest airline and reducing the number of US legacy carriers to five.
2012
Hurricane Sandy hits the east coast of the United States, killing 148 directly and 138 indirectly, while leaving nearly $70 billion in damages and causing major power outages.
2015
China announces the end of One-child policy after 35 years.

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